Germany

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was ready to lead her party to a possible new election for the Bundestag instead of risking forming an unstable minority government.

"I am very skeptical about a minority government," she told TVD, adding that "the new elections will be the better way."

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Nov. 20 her efforts to form a three-way coalition government had failed, thrusting Germany into a political crisis and pushing Europe's largest economy closer to a possible new election.

On November 25, the Goethe-Institut Athen is organizing a city tour exploring German influences in famous buildings in Athens, in English. The city tour will be led by Nikos Vatopoulos and accompanied by the mobile app "Γερμανικά Ίχνη" (German Traces), which can be downloaded from www.goethe.de.

Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed ahead with efforts to form a new German government on Nov. 17 after a night of negotiations failed to resolve differences between the four parties involved. Participants suggested that they may need several more days.

Talks on forming a new German coalition government "can work", Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday ahead of a long night of negotiations at which she must forge a three-way alliance or risk seeing her 12-year stint in power come to an end, reported Reuters. 

Karl Lagerfeld has sparked outrage by evoking the Holocaust as he attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel for opening Germany’s borders to migrants.
“One cannot – even if there are decades between them – kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place,” the 80-year-old Chanel designer told a French television show.

Around 300 000 are the Bulgarians who have been without a permanent job for more than one year and are not looking for a job. This shows data from a study by the Trend Research Center, commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, quoted by bTV.

The human rights situation in Turkey is unacceptable, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told reporters, adding that European Union leaders had asked their executive arm to look at cutting pre-accession aid to Ankara in a "responsible way."

Merkel urged her fellow leaders on Thursday to cut European Union funds to Turkey that are linked to Ankara's bid to join the bloc.

The human rights situation in Turkey is unacceptable, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters on Thursday, adding European Union leaders had asked their executive arm to look at cutting pre-accession aid to Ankara in a “responsible way”.

Ongoing developments in Germany are cause for concern at home. Athens must make sure it does not end up hostage to the power games being played inside Germany's next coalition.